The Anglo-Saxons were the majority of inhabitants of England from about the 5th century to the Norman Conquest in 1066.The term was initially used to distinguish the Saxons of England from those in Europe.y Melissa Snell. Definition: The Anglo-Saxons were the majority of inhabitants of England from about the 5th century to the Norman Conquest in 1066. The term was initially used to distinguish the Saxons of England from those in Europe.
Johannes Kepler discovered that the orbits of planets are elliptical. Johannes Kepler.
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion. In the sixteenth century, most people believed in the ideas of the ancient astronomer Ptolemy, that the planets, Moon, and Sun all orbited around the Earth. Then in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the idea that the planets and the Earth orbited around the Sun.